Lunchtime links: The search for undervalued… OMG Brad Pitt!!!

The — take your pick — grossly misunderstood or widely interpreted Michael Lewis book “Moneyball” about the Oakland Athletics’ search for undervalued talent had its film adaptation released nationwide today.

The movie has garnered mixed reviews, and since my invitation to an advance screening was apparently lost in the mail, my thoughts will come some other time.

But here are some resources if you plan to see the movie, followed by the rest of today’s best stories from around baseball, the absolute best coming at the bottom of the page.

An excerpt: “While our city’s sports fans have been immersed in the Steelers’ fall and rise, the Penguins’ stars back on ice and Pitt’s move to the ACC, it’s gone almost completely unnoticed that the Pittsburgh Baseball Club has been remastering the art of what it does best: Epic failure.” (Dejan Kovacevic, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)